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PMC's Annual Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine

Ellen Sigal, Ph.D., Founder, Chairperson, Friends of Cancer Research, accepts the 14th Annual Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine from Steven D. Averbuch, M.D., formerly Vice President and Head of Precision Medicine at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Now Accepting Nominations

The Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) is now accepting nominations for the 15th Annual Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine. The award recognizes an individual whose contributions in science, business and/or policy have helped advance the frontiers of personalized medicine.

PMC will present the award during the 15th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference, which will take place from November 13 - 14 at Harvard Medical School. The recipient will share his or her vision for the future of personalized medicine with conference attendees.

To nominate a leader, please email a letter of nomination explaining how your nominee has advanced personalized medicine along with a brief bio of the nominee to Christopher J. Wells at cwells@personalizedmedicinecoalition.org.

Please note that PMC Board members are ineligible to receive the award.

About the Award

The Annual Award for Leadership in Personalized Medicine recognizes an individual whose contributions in science, business and/or policy have helped advance the frontiers of personalized medicine.

Previous award recipients include:

• Ellen V. Sigal, Ph.D. (2018)
  Chairperson, Founder
  Friends of Cancer Research
  
• Jay T. Flatley (2017)
  Executive Chairman
  Illumina
  
• Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D. (2016)
  Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics
  Harvard Medical School
  
• Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. (2015)
  Director
  National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  
• Mark Levin (2014)
  Co-founder, Partner
  Third Rock Ventures
  
• Kathy Giusti (2013)
  Founder, Chief Executive Officer
  Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium
  
• Randal W. Scott, Ph.D. (2012)
  Co-Founder
  InVitae Corporation
• Leroy Hood, Ph.D., M.D. (2011)
  President
  Institute for Systems Biology
• William S. Dalton, Ph.D., M.D. (2010)
  CEO
  M2GEN
  Director
  DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at Moffitt Cancer Center
• Brook Byers (2009)
  Managing Partner
  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)
• Michael O. Leavitt (2008)
  Founder and Chairman
  Leavitt Partners
• Ralph Snyderman, M.D. (2007)
  Chancellor Emeritus
  Duke University
  Founder and Chairman
  Proventys, Inc.
  
• Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. (2006)
  President
  Brigham and Women's Health Care
• Janet Woodcock, M.D. (2005)
  Director
  FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research